From the monthly archives:

September 2003

On Big Winds

29 September 2003

Anybody who knows me well knows that I have a thing about hurricanes. I’ve had it for a good quarter century, and it has led me to conclude that we Bahamians do hurricanes well. Either that, or Americans do them badly. I am always amazed at the death tolls and the property damage that hurricanes [...]

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On Federation

22 September 2003

Great minds, they say, think alike. Well, I’m not claiming to have a great mind, but I’ve been struck by the fact that one of the recent discussions that’s been happening on air and in cyberspace is one in which I have an abiding interest. It’s the idea of extending local government, of decentralizing our [...]

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On Theatre

15 September 2003

On Saturday past The Landlord closed. The play ran for a month, for sixteen performances, and audiences kept coming. Now this seems to fly in the face of current wisdom about Bahamian theatre. These days, productions are usually put up for what amounts to a flash in the pan, a blink of an eye: two [...]

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On Class

1 September 2003

I once taught a student who wanted to write a research essay on poverty. As she developed her ideas, it became clear to me that she was choosing to do so because she thought of the average Bahamian as poor, and of herself as an average Bahamian. I asked her a couple of questions, such [...]

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